Author: Barrande, J.
Title: Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Première partie: recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. V. Classe des mollusques, ordre des brachiopodes. Trois chapitres de texte et planches.
Description: Prague, privately published, 1879. Large 4to (33.0 x 25.7 cm). xv, 226 pp., 71 (of 153) lithographed plates with explanatory text-leaves. Publisher's blind-tooled dark brown cloth with gilt title on spine. = Part of an enormous series on all aspects of Bohemian Silurian fossils. It was privately printed in only 250 copies. See Zittel, and DSB: "From 1840 to his death Barrande collected, described and drew the fossils of the central Bohemian Basin - this area has been called the Barrandian ever since. The strata of this basin are Proterozoic - early Paleozoic in age. At that time 'Silurian' might be applied to strata that today are in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian or Devonian system. The results formed the outstanding monograph 'Système silurien du centre de la Bohème', which appeared in eight parts forming 28 quarto volumes. Because this work is so comprehensive, its drawings so accurate and its descriptions so fine, it is still used as a reference book by palaeontologists". This is the Brachiopoda-section (V of the series), and includes many new species. Present are the complete text, and the first part of the plates. A complete copy should have 82 more plates. Provenance: Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, to the "Séminaire de St. Sulpice". Binding worn, top rear hinge starting few small dampstains in the outer margin of a few leaves in the text, larger dampstains in the same place and the top margin in several plates, but not in all and appartently from before binding. In all a good copy of this rare work. DSB vol. 1, pp. 468-469; Nissen ZBI, 235; Zittel, pp. 445-456.

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